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John S. Battle, Jr. Papers, 1933-1991, Accession #11384, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
This collection was given to the Library by Mrs. John S. Battle, Jr. on February 24, 1998. There are no restrictions.
There are 208 items, chiefly newspaper clippings, 1951-1979 and 1991, pertaining to John S. Battle, Jr. in his capacity as Charlottesville City Attorney and attorney for the Charlottesville School Board. Among the correspondence and papers are newspaper clippings on Piedmont Airline, 1955 May; campaign brochure, 1955 July, for William Massie Smith; "Supplement to Desegregation not Integration Memo," 1957; excerpts from a speech by Battle to the Venable School Parent Teachers Association, 1959 March; newspaper clipping, 1991 November, about William McGarvey Dudley and the 50th anniversary of his football achievement at the University of Virginia. Also included is a letter, August 29, 1959, from John A. Mowinckel to Battle regarding the latter's "important decision to transfer your activity to a larger sphere..." Legal publications include: How Appellate Courts Decide Cases, 1951 and Appendix on Behalf of Appellants, United States Court of Appeals for the Fouth Circuit/The School Board of the City of Charlottesville, Virginia and Fendall R. Ellis vs. Doris Marie Allen, et al., [1956]. The majority of the newspaper clippings pertain to the Charlottesville Public Schools and issues of integration, desegregation, and school closings, during 1957-1959. There are a few clippings, 1957 June - September, pertaining to the Fluvanna County dispute over funds for a consolidated elementary school for African-American students. Other newspaper clippings pertain to the Westinghouse Electric Corporation Uranium contract trial, 1977-1979. There is also an oversize photograph of the Charlottesville School for Boys posing with President Herbert Hoover, ca. 1932-1933.